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New Castile

American  

noun

  1. a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).


New Castile British  

noun

  1. a region and former province of central Spain. Chief town: Toledo

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In New Castile lies Madrid, like a gem on a rumpled brown cloth.

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In his garden the first fig tree of New Castile had just borne fruit.

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New Castile, which was recovered later from the Moors, borders it on the south.

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Born in the late seventies, Baroja left the mist-filled inlets of Guipuzcoa to study medicine in Madrid, febrile capital full of the artificial scurry of government, on the dry upland plateau of New Castile.

From Rosinante to the Road Again by Dos Passos, John

Spanish Estremadura is bounded on the N. by Leon and Old Castile, E. by New Castile, S. by Andalusia, and W. by the Portuguese province of Beira and Alemtejo, which separate it from Portuguese Estremadura.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

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